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Jefferies Tubes

Posted Jan. 30, 2019, 9:52 p.m. by Warrant Officer Walker Darach (Chief Operations Officer) (Steve Johnson)

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Jefferies Tubes

Posted by Warrant Officer Walker Darach (Chief Operations Officer) in Jefferies Tubes

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Jefferies Tubes
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“Is anyone in here?” he called out.

Faye’s mind drifted. Was she awake? Asleep? She wasn’t sure. Was that a voice? Maybe she was dreaming.

Not hearing a reply Walker flipped open his tricorder and did a quick scan. It didn’t take long to get an answer to his question, it was picking up one human life sign just up ahead. He started pulling off his uniform jacket, and wrapping it around his hands, to try and insulate his hands as he crawled in, in case there was any current running through the decking, as the med team came running up.

The crawlspace was notably safe and he’d spot a took kit sitting open not far ahead.

“Get prepped, possibly one injury, electrical burns by the smell of it. I’ll drag the person out.” The med techs just nodded as he ducked back into the jefferies tube.

The smoke didn’t obscure his vision itself, but it burned his eyes, making it hard for him to see into the jefferies tube. Instead he had to rely on his hands to try and find whoever was in here.

“If you can hear me, call out,” he said as he continued through the tube. It didn’t take long before he hit the foot of Faye. By this point, he could barely see through the pain of the burning smoke in his eyes, and depending on what the risks were from the electrical burst, they didn’t have time for him to assess how the officer was doing. Time was not on their side.

Yes, someone there. Calloway moaned, trying to say something, but trying to move her mouth and face muscles. Her throat burned too from the smoke she had inhaled and she wanted to cough.

Grabbing onto her ankle, he started pulling back towards the access tube. As he finally got to the access hatch, the med team reached in to help drag her out, as Walker moved to the side and coughed. He was definitely going to pay for this later.

=^= Darach to Engineering. Vent junction 86, and for the love of god, shut down all electrical conduits in this section. =^=

“Already done Mr Darach, except no can do on the vent. Fire suppression systems in the tubes are down.” Max said as he came up to the group, a breather mask half hanging from his face and a fire extinguisher in his hand. He had clipped the tool kit to his belt on the way up. Kneeling down, he looked at the Chief of Ops and nodded, then down to Faye and his eyes narrowed.

As his eyes cleared, he looked over at the officer he had just pulled out. She definitely had some pretty bad burns. “How bad is it doc?”

WO Darach - COO

The young ensign looked the scientist over with his eyes and the tricorder. Her face was entirely scarlet with blistering and some areas that had gone slightly beyond and had a white and yellowish tinge. “Second-degree burns from severe heat source to the entire face and upper scalp line. Her eye lids are mostly clear which suggests they were open when she was hit by the heat.” He leaned it, knowing she was still conscious. “I know you’re in a lot of pain Lieutenant. We’re going to get you to Sickbay quick, but for the meantime, do not open your eyes. Don’t try to speak either. It’ll cause less pain.”

Faye knew that of course but still she wanted to show she understood, so she shakily lifted her hand and gave a thumbs up.

~Faye Calloway, Data Scientist

“They’ll look after you” Max said to her, his voice soft. “Your lucky Mr Darach was here Faye, I’ll tell you just how lucky later. I didn’t know you wanted to make me that pizza this bad.” His voice held a tone of humor to it, although it didn’t show through to his face at all. Faye couldn’t see that however. Patting the medic on the shoulder in a confirmation to get going, he turned to the Chief of Ops.

“You should get to the sickbay as well, that sounds nasty.” he said, indicating the mans cough but at the same time tilting his head towards Faye in a silent request to look after her. “Power is out along the EPS grid feeding the junction, but we still have a fire in that junction. I need to see what damage is in there and what the hell caused half the conduits in this section to surge and overload.” With his free hand he clipped the breather over his mouth fully and entered the access hatch, not looking back to see if the Chief was waiting, leaving or following. There was still a fire to deal with.

Crouching inside, he squinted through the smoke and his torch picked out the objects. A tool kit beside an open panel, and a cylindrical object that wasn’t supposed to be there. “Hmmph” he grunted and moved forward to the panel, pointing the extinguisher at the base of the fire and putting it out in a few well placed bursts. Seconds later, he heard a hum as the fire suppression system came to life and squirted the ex-fire, and him, with suppressant. With that operational and the fire out, the smoke was cleared from the tube in an instant.

Kneeling down and looking at the damage and the cylinder, Max’s eyes narrowed again. “What have we here?” he said as he looked over the device, reaching for his tricorder.

Lt Cmdr Max Wynter
CE / 2nd Officer

OOC: Going to start a thread for Sickbay
IC:
The cylinder definitely didn’t look like a standard component one would find in a power conduit. A scan would give potentially eyebrow raising results since the only thing that was immediately detectable was the composition of the casing. Duranium and a bit of tritanium allowed the cylinder to remain intact, but it was the unusual amounts of korbonite that were used like a net in the casing that prevented Wynter from finding out what was inside the thing and its purpose.

~Faye Calloway, Data Scientist

“I might be new to the ship Commander, but I sure don’t think that is standard issue,” Walker said as he came up behind the Chief Engineer. As soon as the med team had taken Faye away, he had grabbed a respirator from a nearby supply locker. Well it hadn’t been quite that easy, the medics wanted him to go with, but they had eventually relented. With plenty of assurance that he would stop by soon.

But for now his first responsibility was to the ship. So after grabbing the respirator, he followed behind the chief, having come up right after the fire suppression systems had kicked in. “Any chance that it is some sort of capacitor, and caused a surge back through the eps grid? Because I’ve seen some bad burns in my time, but those were some pretty severe electrical burns.”

WO Darach - COO

With some checking of the conduit access area, they would realize that Faye had likely been intending to hook up the device after she had done whatever fiddling that she had given them a heads up on would required a power draw. But she had also requested that power be shunted away or decreased significantly to the specific access point that was still open. Now that power had actually been shut off entirely, they would note that she had been in the middle of rigging the conduit to flow through something, quite possibly the device Wynter held in his hands. It was also notable that it was all impeccably done. Her work had no obvious errors in it, and if there hadn’t been been so much power in the adjacent system when she had activated the flow regulator, it’s likely they wouldn’t be in a burned out EPS conduit area.

But the real question remained: what exactly had Calloway been trying to do? Because even with her known classified data work, it didn’t exactly line up all nice and neat.

~Faye Calloway, Data Scientist

As Walker looked around, he flipped open a tricorder and checked the conduit. He was looking at the rigging that Calloway had started, hoping to figure out what had caused the short. But as he looked closer, something wasn’t adding up.

“Do you mind if I see that device? Because this isn’t adding up,” he asked holding out his hand towards Wynter. “I was looking at the connections there, and it looks like she was getting ready to hook something up to the conduit, probably that device. But why wasn’t power turned off in this junction? I saw the note in the docket that there was a maintenance request for this junction, but that was it. If I was going to be doing work on an EPS conduit, there is not much reason not to have power diverted, at least temporarily.” Especially because there was no reason to be playing with that much live power when you had the option to turn it off. “Unless of course she was trying to divert attention from what was going on here. But then why was it on the schedule?”

WO Darach - COO


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